One Finger At Me, Three More At You
So today I took the train to work (I'm starting work today), and this allowed me to observe how the adults, our country's elite working force, act.
I was appalled.
From the first stop, people had already started pushing their way onto the train, so eager to find a seat. Luckily, I was perfectly content to stand.Isn't it common courtsey, though, to allow others to get off the train first before you get on? Sadly, that wasn't all. A (very obviously) pregnant woman got onto the train, and what shamed me was that no one could be bothered to give their seat up to her. Are these not the people who are well-educated? Are these not the same people who would take pictures of teenagers kissing and post them all over Stomp, with plenty more to complain about? It seems to me that the biggest problem lies with the very ones whom we are expected to look up to.
Please don't get me wrong - I'm a teenager myself, and I agree that what some of us do (like couples groping each other in public) does not sit well with the rest of society. And yes, it's true that not all of us will readily stand to let others have their seat. However, take a good look from our shoes. If teenagers kissing are considered indecent, what if you saw 20-something-year-old couples making out? Call that decent if you have the audacity to do so.
And then again, we're not the ones who rush to the train doors five seconds before they open. We wait for most people to get off first. And most of us actually bother to give our seats up.
Has anyone ever noticed how anti-teenager Singapore's society seems to be? If there's a teenage couple totally frenching it out (worst case scenario) or just exchanging a few light kisses (best case scenario) in public, snap goes the cameraphone and that couple will be on Stomp the very next day, with loads of people fanning the anti-teenager flames and declaring that teenagers are irresponsible, rude, indecent, shallow-minded and a whole lot of other 'traits' that can just as easily be found in other people.
Look at it this way: When you point a finger at someone else, three of your own fingers will be pointing back at you. Point to make - Look at yourself first before you put the blame on someone else. If we teens are as horrible as you claim, where (or who, I should say) are we learning all these horrible things that you so self-righteously claim we are guilty of doing? And stop blaming MTV and the media, people, because it's not always their fault. They're just an easy excuse.
Maybe it's time to start posting pictures of our rude, irresponsible adults on Stomp. What say you?
I was appalled.
From the first stop, people had already started pushing their way onto the train, so eager to find a seat. Luckily, I was perfectly content to stand.Isn't it common courtsey, though, to allow others to get off the train first before you get on? Sadly, that wasn't all. A (very obviously) pregnant woman got onto the train, and what shamed me was that no one could be bothered to give their seat up to her. Are these not the people who are well-educated? Are these not the same people who would take pictures of teenagers kissing and post them all over Stomp, with plenty more to complain about? It seems to me that the biggest problem lies with the very ones whom we are expected to look up to.
Please don't get me wrong - I'm a teenager myself, and I agree that what some of us do (like couples groping each other in public) does not sit well with the rest of society. And yes, it's true that not all of us will readily stand to let others have their seat. However, take a good look from our shoes. If teenagers kissing are considered indecent, what if you saw 20-something-year-old couples making out? Call that decent if you have the audacity to do so.
And then again, we're not the ones who rush to the train doors five seconds before they open. We wait for most people to get off first. And most of us actually bother to give our seats up.
Has anyone ever noticed how anti-teenager Singapore's society seems to be? If there's a teenage couple totally frenching it out (worst case scenario) or just exchanging a few light kisses (best case scenario) in public, snap goes the cameraphone and that couple will be on Stomp the very next day, with loads of people fanning the anti-teenager flames and declaring that teenagers are irresponsible, rude, indecent, shallow-minded and a whole lot of other 'traits' that can just as easily be found in other people.
Look at it this way: When you point a finger at someone else, three of your own fingers will be pointing back at you. Point to make - Look at yourself first before you put the blame on someone else. If we teens are as horrible as you claim, where (or who, I should say) are we learning all these horrible things that you so self-righteously claim we are guilty of doing? And stop blaming MTV and the media, people, because it's not always their fault. They're just an easy excuse.
Maybe it's time to start posting pictures of our rude, irresponsible adults on Stomp. What say you?
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